It's Okay. I'm glad someone answered me. I know that was a question in the
dark, so to speak.
I do have the manual to the device, but, here's what it does. It does
not name the buttons in order and points with arrows to the buttons and
thereis no text that will say what button something is. For example: Click
this button." Well, what is "this button"? Yeah! That's the reason I had
asked the question. I think you're probably right, though, about these
buttons being icons isntead of text labels. I don't really know, but it
would make sense to me.
Also, I do not have Text Detective or Goggles. I do have Prismo and Red
Laser and Looktel Money Reader. I never bought Text Detective back then,
because I was so new to the device I was just learning all of that, then.
Thanks for helping out.
Take care,
Brenda
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Esther" <[email protected]>
To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: can we get our iPhone5 to read buttons on equipment such
asCD-Recorders
Hi Brenda,
You might do better looking for a PDF user manual for your device. A lot of
these electronic devices use icons instead of text labels for buttons, so an
OCR program won't necessarily help you identify the button controls, but a
manual description that lists the buttons in order might provide the
information you need.
I can't really think of any specific apps to recommend for this. talking
Goggles in video mode works fairly well, but it would probably be better at
identifying the device, instead of reading individual control labels. Your
best shot might be the Text Detective app, if you already have this. That
app can be used to identify text on parts of a computer screen, for example.
But I doubt it will work as well for reading button labels on an electronic
device. The problems are that you won't be able to tell whether lighting is
good for your device, or where to point your camera for the buttons, unless
you have some usable vision, whereas computer monitors are lit unless your
screen curtain is turned on. Also, if the device uses an icon instead of
text, the app won't be able to make an identification.
At $9.99 for the current price of Text Detective, I'd be reluctant to try
this as an experiment. If you bought this app at its introductory price of
$1.99 over a year ago, it might be worth trying.
Text Detective is an OCR app that works in video mode, like Talking Goggles
and LookTel MoneyReader, but it can only read a part of a page. You also
have to hold your iPhone in landscape mode, and the text cannot be
recognized if the page is upside down or rotated by 90 degrees (which are
conditions that both Prizmo and TextGrabber can handle). However, many
people find TextDetective easier to use freehand than OCR apps like Prizmo
or TextGrabber, even if they cannot get it to read an entire page , or even
control well the part of the page that is recognized.
HTH. Sorry not to have a more optimistic answer. Cheers,
Esther
On Dec 30, 2013, at 4:02 PM, "meadowlark77" wrote:
> Hello y'all,
>
> Is there a program that we can use to get our iPhone5 to read butttons
> such as on a CD-Writer? I have Prismo, latest version, but cannot get that
> to do it. If there's something like that, please let me know.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Brenda
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